Rosanna Vail PhD Student - Technical Communication & Rhetoric

Rosanna Vail is a Ph.D. candidate in technical communication and rhetoric. She works as the managing editor of a peer-reviewed open access science journal and serves as technical editor for various monograph projects.  

Education 

M.S. Technical Communication, Utah State University   

B.A. English/Writing, Southern Oregon University  

Publications

Vail, R. M. (Forthcoming). "Caught in between": Positionality as an insider-outsider researcher. In K. Acosta et al. (Eds.), Storied practices: Positionality in writing studies. University Press of Colorado. 

Vail, R. M. (Forthcoming). "Who are the stewards of writing?": Linguistic justice and consent in Indigenous language editing and publication. Special Issue of College English: Informed refusal: Theories, pedagogies, and methods for imagining consent in English studies. 

Vail, R. M. (2025). Book review: The predatory paradox: Ethics, politics, and practices in contemporary scholarly publishing. Technical Communication Quarterly, 34(2), 291–294.

Vail, R. M. (2023). A record of revision (poem). Writers: Craft & Context, 4(1), 3. DOI: 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.3

Vail, R. M. (2023). "Descendants of survivors": Tensions in translating COVID-19 vaccine promotion videos in Hawai'i. Technical Communication and Social Justice, 1(1), 64–78. 

Vail, R. M. (2022). Blight (poem). Survive and Thrive: A Journal of Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, 8(1), 5.  

Vail, R. M. (2022). Carefully crafted: Making as facilitator of multimodal composition in COVID-19 carework. Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 6(2).

Vail, R. M. (2022). Book review: Equipping technical communicators for social justice work: theories, methodologies, and pedagogies by R. Walton & G. Y. Agboka (Eds.). Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 52(4), 493–497.

Presentations

Vail, R. M. (2025). Poster presentation: "Radio killed the vacation vibes: Confronting colonialism through Hawaiian Sovereignty songs." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Baltimore, Maryland, April 9–12, 2025. 

Vail, R. M. (2024). "Scholarly environments as rhetorical-pedagogical sites for 'ŌleloHawai'i revitalization." In panel titled "The (Kapu) Aloha State: The rhetorical promise of Indigenous lifeways and place-based pedagogy. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane, Washington, April 3–6, 2024. 

Vail, R. M. (2023). Good genre going astray: plain language summaries in scientific publishing. Technical Rhetoric Symposium. Graduate student-led virtual symposium, Texas Tech University. June 3, 2023.   

Invited Talks

Panelist. Peer Review @ USU. Virtual panel for Peer Review Week hosted by Utah State University Libraries. September 26, 2023.